Tom Parker Bowles has barely seen mom Queen Camilla with a drink in her hand — despite how the royal family member has been portrayed in pop culture. “She has that reputation of drinking gin and smoking,

The son of Queen Camilla responds to rumors regarding her supposed drinking and smoking. Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III is a new book written by food critic Tom Parker Bowles,

Queen Camilla's son, Tom Parker Bowles, is shutting down "inaccurate" claims about his royal mother's drinking habits in his new book, Cooking and the Crown. "If anyone ever meets my mother, they

His mother, he said, is someone who “hardly drinks” and “doesn’t smoke” — and called some depictions of her “totally inaccurate”

In shows like British sitcom The Windsors or historical drama The Crown, Queen Consort Camilla is often shown with a lit cigarette between her fingers or a glass of liquor in her hand. Such portrayals have inaccurately construed her as a heavy drinker and smoker.

Queen Camilla's son has spoken out about his mother's "reputation for heavily drinking and smoking". Tom Parker Bowles, the son of the Queen and her ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, has published a new book titled Cooking and the Crown.

Bowles, has read a lot about his mother over the years. In an interview with The Times, he says he always knew the public would eventually come around to his mother after her rocky relationship with the tabloids in the years after her affair with King Charles became public.